Job 42:17
in Job 42And so Job died, old and full of years.
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So Job died, being old and full of days.
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So Job died, being old and full of days.
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This verse in Job 42
Commentary
10 notes on this verseWe are to understand that this prosperity lasted until his death, and so the text says, "and he died an old man," which expresses his duration of life, "and full of days," which expresses the prosperity of his life. He indicated his adversity already when …
This site's exposition
After this, Job lived 140 years
on Job 42:16-17
He died “old and full of years”, the formula Genesis 25:8 uses of Abraham, a death named as fullness. James 5:11 joins Job's endurance to the outcome the Lord gave him. Davidson reads that verse as the New Testament's judgment on the chapters of complaint before it.
This site's exposition
old and full of years
Clarke takes the word behind full of years, seba, as satisfied. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown see Job die as Eliphaz said the godly would at Job 5:26. The Septuagint adds that Job will rise again, a line they suspect was drawn from Matthew 27:52 and 53.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Scripture reports God increased by half all of Job's things, except for the children. It is evident, therefore, that the length of his life was also increased by a half. If he had lived 170 years when he was delivered from that calamity, it appears …
The Medieval Church1 voice
If it is true that Moses knew Job, why did he never mention him in any of his works? It is evident that [Job] lived before the law, because we know that in every time, in every place and in every person, the knowledge of …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
So Job died,....
Here he goes on with words to the same purport. Though his patience had not its perfect work, his repentance for his impatience had. He is here thoroughly humbled for his folly and unadvised speaking, and it was forgiven him.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
So Job died, being old and full of days - Having filled up the ordinary term of human life at that period of the world. He reached an honored old age, and when he died was not prematurely cut down. He was “regarded” as an old man.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
full of days--fully sated and contented with all the happiness that life could give him; realizing what Eliphaz had painted as the lot of the godly (Job 5:26; The Septuagint adds, "It is written, that he will rise again with those whom the Lord will raise up." Compare Mt 27:52, 53, from which it perhaps was derived spuriously.
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Job died, being old and full of days - He had seen life in all its varieties; he had risen higher than all the men of the East, and sunk lower in affliction, poverty, and distress, than any other human being that had existed before, or has lived since. He died when he was satisfied with this life; this the word שבע seba implies. He knew the worst and the best of human life; and in himself the whole history of Providence was exemplified and illustrated, and many of its mysteries unfolded. We have now seen the end of the life of Job, and the end or design which God had in view by his afflictions and trials, in which he has shown us that he is very pitiful, and of tender mercy, Jas 5:11; and to discern this end of the Lord should be the object of every person who reads or studies it. Laus in excelsis Deo! Both in the Arabic and Septuagint there is a considerable and important addition at the end of the seventeenth verse, which extends to many lines; of this, with its variations, I have given a translation in the Preface. At the end of the Syriac version we have the following subscription: - “The Book of the righteous and renowned Job is finished, and contains 2553 verses.” At the end of the Arabic is the following: - “It is completed by the assistance of the Most High God. The author of this copy would record that this book has been translated into Arabic from the Syriac language.” “Glory be to God, the giver of understanding!” “The Book of Job is completed; and his age was two hundred and forty years.” “Praise be to God for ever!” So closely does the Arabic translator copy the Syriac, that in the Polyglots one Latin version serves for both, with the exception of a few marginal readings at the bottom of the column to show where the Syriac varies.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיָּ֣מָת | vaiyamot | and he died | H4191 → | 839 times |
| אִיּ֔וֹב | ʾiyov | Job | H347 → | 58 times |
| זָקֵ֖ן | zaken | old | H2205 → | 178 times |
| וּשְׂבַ֥ע | useva' | and satisfied of | H7649 → | 10 times |
| יָמִֽים׃ | yamim | days | H3117 → | 2304 times |
וַיָּ֣מָתand he died
vaiyamotH4191 →839 times
אִיּ֔וֹבJob
ʾiyovH347 →58 times
זָקֵ֖ןold
zakenH2205 →178 times
וּשְׂבַ֥עand satisfied of
useva'H7649 →10 times
יָמִֽים׃days
yamimH3117 →2304 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 5:26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
it leads to
- Genesis 15:15
You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 9:11
For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
- Job 42:16–17
After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
- Psalms 91:16
With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
- Genesis 15:15
Through
Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
it leads to
- Proverbs 3:2
for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
- Proverbs 3:16
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
- Psalms 21:4
He asked You for life, and You granted it— length of days, forever and ever.
- Psalms 50:23
He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.”
- Proverbs 3:2
Where this verse is studied
About Job
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on 9 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on A. B. Davidson, The Book of Job, Cambridge Bible; Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON JOB 42:16; Ishodad of Merv, COMMENTARY ON JOB 42:16; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.